Global Issues

Kenya

• Source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking.

• Kenyan children are forced into sex trafficking – including involvement in the coastal sex tourism industry.

• Kenyan men, women, and children voluntarily migrate to other East African nations, Europe, and the Middle East – particularly Saudi Arabia – in search of employment, where they are trafficked into domestic servitude, massage parlors and brothels.

• Children from Burundi, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda are subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking in Kenya.